So when I counsel my patient to pay attention to his dreams, I mean: “Turn back to the most subjective part of yourself to the source of your being, to that point where you are making world history without being aware of it.  Your apparently insoluble difficulty must, it is obvious, remain insoluble, for otherwise you would wear yourself out seeking for remedies of whose ineptitude you are convinced from the start.  Your dreams are an expression of your inner life, and they can show you through what false attitude you have landed yourself in this blind alley.” ~ CG Jung: CW10 paragraph 316

On Projections

“The existence of projections was gradually recognized when it was found that the process of psychological adaptation was marked by disturbances and defects whose cause appeared to lie in the object. Closer investigation revealed that the ‘cause’ was an unconscious content of the subject, which, because not recognized by him, apparently transferred itself to the object, and there magnified one of its peculiarities to such proportions that it seemed a sufficient cause of the disturbance.”  ~ CG Jung: CW10 paragraph 41

Venus turns Rx in May - Colorful Venus

This will be a short description of the upcoming planetary involvement for the month of May and  a brief reminder for each of the signs to let us know what we can envision for the month.  See a more detailed forecast on this site at http://gwynnemayer.com/2012/second-quarter-astrocast-april-may-june-2012/ for the months of April, May and June.  The main event for this month is Venus turning Retrograde on May 15^th – June 27^th in the sign of Gemini, affecting us all in the areas of love, money, desire and manifestation, creating the duality in our natures, depending on our own birth Sun, Ascendant and Moon signs.  Pay attention to all three while reading this forecast.

Aries

Work with the creative side of Pluto and start watching where you act out with your impulses…spending money will not buy you happiness, nor will flitting from one great idea to the next.  It is time to curb the ‘reactions’ and start acting ‘response able’ or the karma will pile up and changes will be made ‘for’ you rather than ‘by’ you.  You cannot keep going with self-indulgence, you have to think of the ‘other’.  Expect the unexpected in this powerful time and try to learn to calm yourself a bit!

Taurus

Taurus is advancing in many ways, finances and possessions, however you don’t want to lose sight of your partner’s contributions and his/her own fair share of the finances.  Balance and honesty will help you get through this month.  You have denied certain conditions around relationships that are now coming to the forefront. These things need to be dealt with immediately without any procrastination on your part. The Venusian ruler of your sign turns Retrograde May 15 for the next 43 days.  Think in creative ways to make this month one of the most decisive ones in your lifetime.

Gemini

You have been letting go of attachments right and left and now it is time to delve into some creative maneuvering that you have put on the back shelf.  It might be a project that you let go of many months/years ago and now it is haunting you to start the work.  The first of the month will be more helpful to make plans for completion and you might find yourself burning the midnight oil alone so you have the time and the disposition to create your dream.

Cancer

You have had to make changes in your relationship communication recently and now it is time to make some changes with those you call your friends.  If you are paying attention to what you feel and need first, then that is a good thing, rather than replenish your energy as an afterthought.  Changes in the arrangement in your home may throw you off balance, but make the best of it and find a way to feng shui for success!  Also look into studying some of your spiritual needs and pay attention to your dreams.

Leo

Leos need to find some respite in their dreams and ambitions and start looking at having some fun in life rather than make it about ‘work’.  If health concerns have popped up recently it is purely the fact that we Leos have neglected what is important for our better health, mentally, spiritually and physically.  It is time to see how those are all tied together and not in such a way as to distance ourselves from our basic needs in life.  The Leos have had to come to grips with ‘the way they live their lives’ and make the needed changes all the way through.  The fire energies are supportive of this.

Virgo

Virgo has gone though some major awareness and conscious expansion due to Mars turning Rx and then direct, in their sign.  It has caused upheaval and paradigm shifts in major ways forcing the Virgo to take a new look at old habits and ways of thinking that have interfered with progress in all areas.  Changes are easily made if you can see what the real roots of the problems are, however if you are going to make these changes and then be in your comfort zone, watch out as you may hit a wall of your own making.  Changes need to made in home and career this month and often times in both at the same time.  Just grin and bear it!

Libra

Librans are relaxing into a more comfortable position, and a well-maintained position this next month; your love life may be on the upswing if you are not ignoring your sexual and monetary endeavors with a partner.  Sometimes Libran’s fool themselves into thinking, problems do not exist until so much pressure is on them, it forces them to take a look!  Watch your money and take care of your budget so that you can have all the goodies in life that you deserve.

Scorpio

Scorpios need to tweak their relationships in the next few weeks so that they don’t end up losing everything they have worked for the last few years.   You and only you know what needs to be done so don’t go asking for advice when you haven’t faced up to the truth of your  well-being.  It is time to take an accounting of your money, your responsibilities and your future.  There will not be a better time than now!  This makes demands on you to be truthful with yourself and come to grips with issues you have been ignoring.

Sagittarius

Home is changing and careers demand attention right now.  You are forever optimistic and you have ignored some things that are now messing with your energy; sucking your energy to be exact!  If you have children, provide some time for them and maybe enjoy or plan a vacation so that you can spend quality time with your family.   You have lost sight of some important things you wanted to accomplish in life so get back to the basics and learn what drives your passion.  Don’t keep procrastinating!

Capricorn

You are much more serious about life and accomplishments than you have ever been.  Be realistic about budgeting money and don’t get lost in the confusion of your own accountability.  You have some wisdom in this area of equating talent with financial gain, so use it!  You have had some recent problems in the family either through illness or distancing or both and it is time to make amends with those who are ready to do that, however you cannot lead a horse to water and then force them to drink. Me thinks you have learned that well the last couple of years.

Aquarius

The issues on your mind are all about money and connecting to your passions in life.  You are finding your ‘purpose’ and it seems to be driving the engines of your soul at this point in time.  Keep your eyes on the road and be safe so that you don’t spin out of control.  Your dreams have been significant of late and they will guide you into the areas you need to go, as your fountain is sourced by your unconscious and often, dreams are our only clue as to where to go and what to do.  Also meditation and prayer help to focus you, by allowing your mind to make connection to God and those angels that surround you.

Pisces

Pisces seems to be taking care of medical issues if not issues in the medical field.  This is a good time to get the body, mind and soul in alignment and don’t ignore what needs to be done.  You have felt these things deeply and now are beginning to move forward.  It might be also time to educate yourself on some other areas of interest so that you have the background in the near future to follow your dream.  It is never too late to learn and especially in the creative way that you are meant to guide others and follow that ‘yellow brick road’.  Be realistic combined with creativity.  It will all work out!

(For many years, I worked with Kenan Branam and we were soul companions, briefly married, but remained friends.  This article was written during that time and is an intelligent discussion of how Gestalt fits into Astrology. We often wrote off of each other and these could just have easily been my words. He died recently and this is my tribute to him.  Thank you Ken for all of your hard work and dedicated service to mankind.)

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…”

Shakespeare said something like that. He offered a paradigm of reality seeing life as a dramatic play in which we are all compelled to “read our lines” and meet our inevitable end. This fatalistic view of reality was not original to Shakespeare. History credits Greek Tragedy with an earlier version.

In more modern times, Constantin Stanislavski, Russian stage actor/director, and teacher developed a method of “being” not just acting that would foster individual spiritual growth. (Read more about it – The Transpersonal Actor) He had a more optimistic paradigm of reality. He prophesied that we, as individuals, could create our own lives through self expression, reaching deep into our psychic resources. Perhaps he understood Shakespeare’s other wisdom, “The play’s the thing, to catch the consciousness of the King.”

Stanislavski recognized that these resources were both personal and universal. Tapping into the same pool of intuition, Carl Jung charted these deep waters and named it the “collective unconscious”. His identification of “archetypes” became a “cast of characters ” or “roles” that each of us access unconsciously to play out our personal life scripts.

Fritz Perls, the Father of Gestalt Therapy, brought the “play” to group work and individual personal growth with the “hot seat” dialogue. He facilitated both the verbal scripts and the intuitive experience to guide the client toward greater self awareness and intentional integration.

How I learned Astrology

I had been practicing Gestalt in group and individual session for several years when I became curious about esoteric subjects like astrology and tarot. I had practiced dialogues with imaginary people (my father, mother, significant others), empty chairs and pillows, trees, animals, and of course, the “world” as I saw it. When I recognized astrology as archetypal, I included its symbols in my personal work. I would say, in a Gestalt session, “I am Mars!”, and then experienced the back flow of my declaration. Feelings of fear, anger, challenge, excitement, images of war and violence, even physical responses such as deeper breaths, flushed skin, spontaneous flexing of muscles in my arms and thighs, energy coalescing into images of ancient Roman warriors. “I am a Warrior!” I would say as I “owned” and accepted the warrior in myself (filtered through Carlos Castaneda’s “Warrior”.)

“I am Scorpio!” I felt a rush of sexual feelings and images with a sudden need to hide them from the group. Alas, I didn’t know it then, but I was beginning to tune into and integrate my Mars in the 10th house in Scorpio with the subtleties of its oppositions, conjunctions and square to Pluto…my T-Square, my ongoing process, my Gestalt.

With psychodrama, pillow talk dialogue, and time to meditate, I began to realize that Something powerful flowed through me on it’s way through animals and plants and planets. To me, Mars is not just a small red dot in the sky, an intellectual concept, nor just a thing…. it’s Me. I give “My Mars” more of it’s share of my life and value it as a unique part of myself… and part of the Universe at the same time. With this spiritual connection, I began to feel a little bit more at home in Universe.

With only street knowledge of astrological symbolism, I built a base of personal knowledge and experience that I later discovered corresponded to “key words and phrases” in the cookbooks of Astrology. Astrology has become a part of me. And I’m a part of Astrology!

“Astrology is not something to BELIEVE in… It’s something to KNOW about.”- Noel Tyl

The Gestalt Approach to Reading a Chart

Fritz Perls’ definition of the Gestalt process comes from objectively watching the natural way that living beings deal with life’s essential needs such as hunger, aggression, mating, etc. Simply speaking, we all follow a similar process of becoming aware of what we want or need, focusing on a method of satisfying the need, acting out the plan, and reaching completion and integration. We’re hungry, we find food, eat it, digest it, assimilate it, become satisfied and, hopefully, move on to the next gestalt. We move from general awareness to specific back to general … with some growth happening in the process. The process is cyclic and never ending just as we must continue to breath in and out to stay alive.

The Gestalt approach to Astrology, from the “reader’s” point of view, is about looking at the Natal Condition from a process perspective. Seasoned professional Astrologers have learned various ways to “see” a chart from a process point of view. As they say, “I get a picture of who the person is.” Then they work toward communicating their vision to the client with greater or lesser degree of success.

From the broadest perspective, everyone’s natal chart has a unique visual configuration that forms an harmonious circle. After all, the solar system is always in harmony, so it’s important that we, as Astrologers, recognize that harmony and the potential for integration inherent in every client’s chart.

Then as we begin to notice groupings of the planets in quadrants: above and below or Eastern and Western. We assign meaning to these patterns representing the native’s propensity to certain psychological states such as introvert/extrovert or inner/outer. We might also identify karmic conditions that influence the native’s life mission and how it will likely be “acted out”.

Next we can focus on specific groups of planets in signs and house and what angles they make to each other. We can assign meaning to such patterns as Grand Squares, Mystic Rectangles, or “buckets”, etc.

At some point in our process of attention, we move from a broad perspective to a more analytical perspective, perhaps, to delineation. Finally, we return to “the big picture” through such techniques as Maritha Pottenger’s number system or Joan Negus’ “three times is the charm”. One might say we switch from right-brain to left-brain, from a Pisces to a Virgo perspective, or harmonize some personal opposition or square in our own chart. The process of awareness that we use to read the client’s chart is our own version of the gestalt process. It is HOW we deal with the world. It is how we ARE in the world.

When we, as Astrologers, look at another person’s natal chart from a gestalt perspective, we can sometimes relate to their primary processes of awareness and assume we can discriminate between our own propensities and our client’s.

The Experiential Gestalt Astrology Session

The Mandala work is a facilitated exercise performed by the Native (you) in a group or private session. It is an empowering opportunity for you as a client to participate and contribute.

A 12′ astrological natal chart is drawn on the floor. Spheres as symbols of the planets signs are placed on the grid corresponding to their positions in your natal chart. After you have had a few moments of sitting in the middle of the Mandala, having a physical experience of the colors, symbols, and their spatial relationships, you then begin a conversation with planets representing aspects of yourself: your present conflicts, dilemmas, “other” people in you life, even memories, dreams, and reflections.

Intellectual concepts and symbols are “fleshed out” with the drama of your life scripts, enabling meaning and purpose. Conflicting internal dialogues from opposing planets negotiate new contracts for more integrated behavior. Trine and sextile planets become consciously supportive. Unconscious planets join the team and show up with greater resources.

Everything that is important to you in your life is reflected in your natal chart and emphasized by current transiting planets. As you interact with your natal chart and the symbols of planets, signs, modalities, and elements, you develop an intuitive understanding of astrological energies and processes.

The Role of the Gestalt Astrology Facilitator

Being a Gestalt Facilitator is a way of relating to another person in a consulting or teaching role that requires quite different objectives and procedures than would an astrologer or psychoanalyst, for that matter. More emphasis is placed on empowering the “client” to experience his/her own processes and integrate new awareness’ into her/his life skills. The Gestalt Facilitator primarily acts as a “clear” mirror to reflect the client’s behavior back to their own awareness.

The Astrological Natal Chart is an objective mirror in the form of a visual symbol. While it is very focused and detailed, its archetypal principles provide unlimited depth of meaning. When we, as Astrologers, “read” a chart for a client, the benefits we offer are limited to our specific knowledge of astrology, our communication skills, the client’s ability or state of mind to listen, and the time/space limits of our session. With a gestalt approach, we can open the door, the natal chart, to greater possibilities of experience and understanding for the client. The potential of the client’s awareness is invited and, providing that the Facilitator is skillful and clear, even enhanced, allowing the client to leave a session with, not only greater knowledge but with greater self awareness of personal power.

Gestalt as a psychological approach is a cognitive modality that facilitates integration of body, emotions, mind, and spirit, enabling an experience of essential being, clarity, self-support, and personal empowerment. When applied to Astrology, the Gestalt experiential process provides an opportunity to transform the Ancient Wisdom of Astrology into a personal, existential experience of our Natal Integrity.

…and God divided the light from the darkness…The Gestalt Perspective

As promised, this is the more lengthy astrocast for April, May and June of this year, looking at it from the perspective of each sign Aires through Pisces.  Many events are going on in the heavens these days and in addition to the solar storms, we have planets acting up and causing some turmoil. This is not to say that there is a disaster at hand, instead it is to keep you ‘on your toes’ and will allow your consciousness to soar. Remember to always read your Ascendant (rising sign) first, your Moon second and your Sun sign last when reading general monthly reports.  Stay tuned to other events that we will bring you here through this very important year of 2012.  Some highlights for this month are in order of importance: (dates may vary due to location)

Mercury will turn direct on April 3^rd in the sign of Pisces and moves slowly on into Aries…things will improve around April 12^th so give it some time to exert its influence.  (Mercury never ventures more than 28 degrees from the Sun)

Venus will be retrograde from May 15^th until June 27^th  in the middle of Gemini, affecting again Gemini and Sagittarius.

Mars will turn direct Saturday April 14^th to the pleasure of all Virgos since it has basically gone through the sign of Virgo since January the 23^rd.

Saturn will continue in retrograde motion in the latter degrees of Libra and will finally exit slowly when He turns direct June 25^th.  Hopefully all the late degrees of Libra have learned the lessons this ‘time honored’ old giant has tried to teach you.

Pluto will turn retrograde on the 10^th of April in the sign of Capricorn and will not turn direct again until mid-September. There is a major Pluto squaring Uranus activity which applies to a world situation as well as personal experiences accordingly.

This information came from a blog Astrotabletalk…do not know the writer but it is very important information:

 “So we have this Uranus square Pluto transit that is affecting the whole world. It is probably going to be most noticeable when the chart of a country interacts strongly with that transit, as it does for all the major powers at different times. But it’s not just about the interaction with charts. We have seen that with the Arab Spring, the series of rebellions against secular authoritarian government that have spread across the Middle East and beyond. We are also seeing the same sort of change in Burma and Russia. It is a like a virus that is spreading across the world. Symbolically Uranus is a planet of protest inasmuch as it is creative, it wants to create new forms and it needs the freedom to do that. The sign of Aries brings a martial quality and a visionary quality to that, and the square from Pluto empowers that protest – empowers in the sense that Pluto brings a life or death quality, for the protesters it becomes an issue of their survival as free human beings rather than mere subjects, that is where the empowerment comes from.”

Neptune will turn retrograde in Pisces, its ruling planet, on June 4^th until the 10^th of November.

We will have a Solar Eclipse in the 0 degree of Gemini May 20^th which will bring some changes along to Gemini and Sagittarius.

A Lunar Eclipse will occur on June 4^th in at 14 degrees of Sagittarius, affecting both Sagittarius and Gemini.

Aries

Aries will have great changes to deal with the next few years and as of now, these changes are coming rapidly and keep the adventurous Aries on his/her toes for the time being.  Health issues, around stress and anger management, need to be watched. This is not a time where one can be impulsive and explode in the moment just to make a point.  It is time to give you plenty of alone time so that you are rested and make wise decisions. There may be unfinished business in the area of finances and investments that need to be looked after so that you do not lose the monies you have gained thus far. Toward the middle of the month you will notice a more positive outlook on the financial future.  Your relationships have been suffering the last few months with poor communication and even poorer intimacy issues so it might be time to look into yourself and find a way to improve those matters or you will find yourself, again, alone and not able to function well without a partner.  Traveling might be an option to lighten your load toward May and June and it might give you a new slant on things.  If you are not thinking of traveling, then engage in some new adventure that will use your mind and develop a new sense of self, especially in the spiritual world.  Your friends and family may be your saving grace for the next few months so bring them closer into your inner circle and feel blessed that they are still around and able to be supportive of you and your endeavors.  Take special care of filing your taxes this year and make sure you check all of your expenses honestly and thoroughly.  If mistakes are made it will be because of carelessness and too quickly calculated so take your time.  All in all, this is a time for you to pay close attention to what you are doing, especially in partnership with others, marriages, businesses and families.  You will learn lessons from this time in your life that you never thought possible!  Learn to meditate and honor your quiet time in ways you have not done up until now.

Taurus

Taurus is very busy these days, seemingly indispensable to those around you, especially in the business sector.  Your charm and magnetism are doubled while Jupiter visits your sign so make the most of it for the next couple of months, just don’t overdo it and become too obnoxious.  Watch your flirtations as they might bring you more trouble than you were counting on in the area of romance and commitment.  Are you ready for a commitment now?  Really think about it.  Pay close attention to cosmetic situations, especially around the teeth and make sure you are taking good care of your teeth and gums.  It might also be helpful to adjust your sleep habits and find out if you are getting enough REM sleep.  Getting plenty of oxygen in your sleep helps you to dream more comfortably and gain knowledge through your dreams.  If you are a smoker, please consider quitting as you are, as a Taurus, putting your health at great risk.  The fixed signs have more of a tendency to addict, whether those addictions are drugs, food, alcohol, exercise…you name it!  You might find that traveling and learning more advanced mental activities will help you through these times. You are gifted in the critical thinking department and have some creative urges that need to be met, maybe in writing or developing an art of some kind more fully and energetically. Do not procrastinate on any of these things as they will only snowball into more problems.  As long as things go well around you, you tend to bury your head in the sand about any problems that are not considered crisis.  These, too, need to be dealt with so they don’t become volcanic in nature.  Enjoy those around you, not as possessions, but as companions and loved ones.

Gemini

Life has been a roller coaster for Gemini’s however situations will become clearer and clearer as we move toward your birthday.  There might be some new experiences on the rise that will give you more opportunity to do what you love to do, rather than what you ‘have’ to do.  Take care of any medical issues that come up, no matter how minor or serious they are so that you can operate at full capacity the remaining part of the year. You will need your wits about you.  There might be some changes in relationships and you might have hooked up with someone from the past, very serendipitously.  Watch for those signs in relationships when your heart pitter patters and you don’t know why!  Work situations have been mind boggling and somewhat of a problem. You might be doing too much to make your superiors happy and, in doing so, you have made yourself indispensable and therefore stressed and unhappy, not doing what you want to do, but what you ‘have’ to do.  It is time to take an accounting of what brings you joy and passion in life. Can you remember those feelings?  Gemini resonates very well with others when communications are fulfilling; when they aren’t, then all hell breaks loose.  Gemini’s will find that their siblings are giving them a hard time about something that is ‘close to home’, so it might be time to have a major family intervention.  It might have to do with family estates or money involved in the investments made within the family.  In either case, plan wisely with investments for the future and start saving any extra money that comes your way.   Your dreams are telling you about your future and are resolving past issues so pay close attention to your dreams and what they are saying to you; maybe even keep a dream journal so you can reflect on these very important times in your dream world.

Cancer

Changes are happening all around you and if there is anything you hate worse is ‘unexpected’ change.  You have gained and lost in the last few months and it hasn’t been easy, plus you are also getting worried about something your partner is doing or not doing, whether she/he be intimate other or a business partner so it is time to take a true accounting of your concerns before you look like you are having some kind of ‘melt down’.  You know best what your body and mind needs however you are working against yourself in ways on your best friend will know.  Get some support in some of the decisions you are making or at least ‘trying’ to make and think in the affirmative before taking any action.  You have had some major considerations around home/living matters and it might be time to either finish up a renovation or at least feng shui your space so that you are a happier person.  Your thoughts and intentions can be accessed by using some intuitive measures to guide you, like meditation, prayer or returning to a more spiritual plight.  You have a great deal of energy in the next few months, the type of energy that helps you make good decisions, so don’t let the past few months color a sort of negativity around you that will hinder your excellent mind and decision making processes.  You have been fortunate to have money set aside and will find that you are secure in the financial sense of the word….all problems seem to be around emotional and intimate connections.  You might want to consider a new routine and handle supervising or managing others at your work place in a much more efficient and welcoming manner.  Your health needs tweaking, especially around your teeth, bones and flexibility so make sure you are watching what you are eating and drinking so as to handle any inflammation that would build up a fungal reaction in your body.  You might want to consider going to a doctor on integrative medicine so that you can figure out what is causing all the ups and downs in your mood swings these days.  Above all else, remain calm and life will improve on all accounts.  Your partner will appreciate your new optimistic view and you can move forward with a lovely vacation after your birthday!

Leo

Leos are doing some major soul searching these days as to what brings them joy, peace and passion in life.  Money issues have been of a major concern for the past couple of months but all that is getting ready to make a change and the next few months may bring rewards beyond your wildest dreams, that is, if you have affirmed those positive ideas in the ways that will allow you to be open to receive, which is also attached to your ‘willingness’ to change some of the fixed notions you have had the last few months around your negativity.  You have been also dealing with matters around vehicles, communications and family matters, all of which will settle down the next few months and you will be on your way to more relaxation and enjoyment….necessities in the life of a Leo.  You must get in touch with your sense of authority and look at how you treat people and expect them to treat you….these issues may come up in a way that causes you to find a counselor that can help you integrate your ideas about fame, authority, power and especially self-esteem.  You cannot control others, but you can control yourself and that is really all you can hope for.  If you have a positive and affirmative attitude regarding your own ambitions, everything in your life will fall into place and you will be surprised at how your goals will be met.  Some Leos will be having problems with aches and pains, not to mention problems that only a dentist can fix so it is time to see about those minor, but annoying things going on in your body.  You have been asked to be the listening ear to many problems from friends and family and now it is time for you to ‘listen to yourself’ and take your own advice to heart.  Boundaries, healthy boundaries are important to acquire so that you are not stressed beyond your capacities.  Your dreams tell you a lot and will be able to help you get in touch with your ‘heart’s intentions’ if you will only listen and maybe even keep a journal to remind you later of this very important time in your life.  From April 15^th on, life will get on a much better keel and will show you new ways of handling your life and the problems that come up. You will make it no matter how much you stand ‘in your own way’.  You were meant to be a leader in all things, so try out your leadership skills with grace the next few months and see if you can change your attitude in a more positive and affirmative manner.

Virgo

Virgo has been on a roller coaster, emotionally, physically and mentally for the past few months so you will have somewhat of a reprieve the next several months, not that you will give up your fretting, analyzing everything and picking at yourself, but less so, much less so, thank God!  The next few months will be a time of expansion in your businesses and your relationship with the ‘intimate other’, that is if you do not obsess about either one…let things flow more naturally and imagine yourself having all that you want, rather than obsessing about what you don’t want. The miracle in all of this is that if you really focus on any one thing with a great positive attitude, it will come your way, but if the slightest worries and concerns send you into a negative spin, you won’t get what you want as you become your own worst enemy.  You are probably involved with some Piscean influence in your life, either through partnerships, dreams, meditations or getting in touch with your own ‘magic’ and your ‘projections’.  It is a great time to enjoy the movies, the dramas on TV and let those things live themselves out through your imagination….taking the major ‘soap opera drama’ of your life out of the mix in ‘real life’.  Plan accordingly, each day, making notes and lists of what you are going to attain for the day and see to it that you are benefitting yourself in some way, rewarding yourself for you incredible perseverance and hard work, which borders on workaholic behaviors.  Your creativity will be at your maximum the next few months, so please take advantage of that and make some beautiful project come to fruition. You can multi-task like no other so it might be several projects that will be finished and you will be astounded at the results.  It is also time to sock away some cash in savings or planning for that ‘rainy day’. Investments you have made with your own energies might become cash at hand, so be thankful and see that you budget this savings into your long term account.  You might be considering new transportation so it might be wise to look at vehicles that suit you and that reflect who you are to some degree.  Make sure your communications are direct and clear and not confusing to the receiver. You will be amazed at how much more smoothly your life will be when you are clearer about your path and your wishes.  Above all else, take it easy on yourself and follow a natural path of diet and exercise.

Libra

Librans are finally getting over their ‘lesson-learning’ time and are on to greater things.  It has been a hard two years, but also a rewarding one as the Libra has learned to make hard decisions and then live with those decisions.  It will be best to sensitize to those around you and really listen rather than project what ‘you think’ too quickly. Sometimes problems around you can only be solved by ‘listening ears’.   You might want to consider staying away from too much sugar and alcohol for the next few months and get more in touch with your cravings so that you don’t have health problems stemming from this time, not to mention heart problems or diabetes if you have this tendency in your family.  Make sure to eat healthily and well and also realize how much it might save on fast foods and processed foods, as your savings account needs nurturing as well.  Your partners, both personal and professional may be going through immense changes and it is somewhat confusing to you, but, hey, you don’t have to follow suit with those changes, just learn to go with the flow and relax into a new routine and exciting possibility.  You will find that monies will be more available in the next six months, possibly through inheritance or some investments that surprise you.  Make sure that you are reporting everything properly for the IRS so that you don’t have to take on an audit in the next year.  You will be at the top of your game in your profession and may even take on other responsibilities that will add to your resume and to your fame and fortune later on.  If you are a baby boomer, it is time to think of retirement in a comfortable yet disciplined manner and get in touch with that great Libran peace of mind that is so prevalent in your older years.  You have deserved every opportunity to live a full life and now is the time to set these things in motion.  If you are still young, it is also wise to think of how you want to live out your next fifty years in some form of financial stability.  Be careful to give your partner equal responsibility for the future as well and don’t take all the credit. You are about ‘equality’; remember?

Scorpio

The Scorpios are out and about making ‘hay while the sun shines’ as the old saying goes.  You are calling in your markers and making sure all your bases are covered.  There is a need for freedom, travel and new experiences which have been haunting you the past few months and you will see a window of opportunity especially after April when you can do just that!  Your sharp and intense perception has caused you to ruffle a few feathers because you also have a sharp and intense way of communicating these to others.  You can be charming when you want something but mostly you see under all intentions and can find fault with the slightest situation.  Your creativity has been at a maximum level and your ability to share this with others, including your children if you have them, is greatly appreciated.  Money and the earning, savings, investing of money will be getting a lift in May and will continue throughout the year with a watchful eye on your part. There may be somewhat of a snafu toward the first of June, but you will handle it and get over it.  Friends have been waiting on you to have some fun and good times again so it might be wise to plan being with friends and enjoying their company….you tend to take life too seriously at times and then you become somewhat of a ‘drag’. Get over it!  You have been really soul searching lately and paying attention to the messages coming to you through dreams and reflections.  It might be a good idea to write these things down and get ready for Saturn to move into Scorpio later in the year….this will bring about a two and a half year soul searching mania and disciplines needed to be put in place so might as well get started on it without all the pressures of Saturn hanging out in your department.  Certain things about you have to change and these changes will cause your outer environment to change as well, in the areas of relationships, work and home.  Get ready…it is always a good idea to be prepared so there are no surprises.  You are a sharp cookie, so keep sharpening up!

Sagittarius

Sagittarians are having their ups and downs, almost like a roller coaster.  Changes seem to be happening daily, so much so that their heads are spinning at the end of the day.  Many new opportunities will be presenting themselves this summer, especially after the eclipses the end of May and beginning of June, so keep your eyes open and make sure you read the signs with the best of your intuition.  Making, spending and investing monies have really been a focal point this year, and now it is time to take an accounting of what all this means and you are the only one who derives meaning out of all of this activity.  You are a multi-talented individual and now it is time to focus in on a few of your more excellent qualities to capitalize on these.  You have been concerned about how you handle your own authority in decision making processes; this needs to be tweaked in a big way, always remembering to honor your own decisions before others close to you. Boundaries and appropriate friendships have been a discerning factor since January and you might have had to retreat from loved ones and people who are your best friends, just so you can find yourself in the process. Meditation, prayer, solitary activities have been important in order for you to self-reflect and get a handle on how you are perceived, not only by others but by yourself as well.  Finding solitude in your home might also help you rearrange your immediate environment to feng shui with your current energies.  Also going to some more rituals, yoga, church, drumming, Native American types of activities will help in getting you back to your ‘center’.  You are a creative gypsy at heart and dancing and music might be of great help to you, even belly-dancing might increase your love life and get you in touch with more of your instinctual self.  Remember you can only give to others with the same regard you give to yourself so focus on your internal processes and learn to love unconditionally!

Capricorn

Capricorns have been unsettled by the mood swings of late and are learning how the other signs might be more emotionally involved in their lives that they, as Cappy’s have been.  It is important to remember that above all else Capricorns must save ‘face’ to those around them and they cannot show their more vulnerable underbellies even though their families and loved ones know them well.  Getting intensely involved in a new project or a new study of some kind may take the ‘heat’ off of the moment, but, at the end of the day, what is left for the Capricorn to confront about the internal workings of their own emotions and feelings?  Much of the private life of a Capricorn is unknown to those around him/her, however you can rest assured that he/she will be trying to handle the intense changes that are about to cause a sense of ‘overwhelm’.  The ability to foresee changes and be prepared has always been the ‘saving grace’ of most Capricorns and now, those boundaries seem to be threatened.  If this is not happening to the Cappy, it is happening to the partner or in the business partnership to some degree so you can’t get off the hook on this one.  Changes need to occur in the way you handle your life and the ‘allowing’ of energies to come forth inside of yourself in order to be ‘at peace’ to some degree.  You might find that your blood pressure or health, in some way, fluctuates greatly and that is because when we don’t confront our unconscious, it usually shows up in the body, through addictions to drugs, alcohol, food, work, you name it!  See if you are being honest with yourself about all of this, or you might ask your partner if he/she sees where you might be able to help yourself.  This is your most intense time and it is for you to confront the very issues in your life that keep you from feeling successful and useful to others and by others.  There might come a time during the summer when you need to have a minor surgical procedure, so don’t put this off, get it over with and all will be well.  If you postpone health issues, they only grow to be a monumental hurdle in the future.  Make sure that your investments are secure and that you are prepared for the next ten years or more. That is where your talent lies in saving, investing and security needs.  You will see that you have a handle on the future if these things are taken care of and you will find that your family can survive the 2012 phenomena all the way around.

Aquarius

Aquarians have been less confused about their purpose and what path they are on; they really have a handle on what to do next to manifest the positive sides of their lives.  Money situations will improve greatly along with the ability to ‘receive’ and ‘allow’ money to come into your possession for ‘any’ reason, not just ‘according to your plan’.  Your dreams will be manifested when you get out of your own way and allow the universe to be your guide; your dreams, your fantasies and above all your fate.  It might be wise to decide on how you will invest this windfall when it comes your way and even more so, how will you save it for a rainy day, retirement or for some trip you have been looking forward to….all possibilities are on ‘go’.  It is time to pay attention to what you have been ideally trying to create the past ten years and be open to those ‘creations’ to come forward in a big way, leaving more room for growth beyond your wildest imaginings.  You have had some issues around partnerships of late and it might be time for you to be ‘exacting’ in contracts, either written or verbal, as to what to expect from those partners. This goes for loved ones as well, so that you do not get taken advantage of, but instead can operate with honesty and commitment from all sides.  You have had a tendency to ‘see only what you wanted to see’ even when others tell you the truth of what is happening. Now, you are ready to accept the truth and move forward.  Make sure you are eating properly and at the right times and not using food as an addiction or as something that will ‘slow you down’.  You might have to take many short trips in the near future and so it will help if you take special care to have a vehicle that can manage the number of trips you need to take, this same aspect from the stars also affects communications and it might be that you have to settle up with members of the family who have not really been there for you.  You cannot be everything to everybody and I think you have learned that lesson well the past few years, haven’t you?  You might have to take care of a loved one or a parent who is in need of care and tending. This will be something that is not going to slow you down so much, as it is to force you to plan and move forward with care and patience.  Your partner, if you have one, is concerned about finances and ability to save for retirement. The money will be there, but it will take some maneuvering on all participants in the plan.  You will have a very productive next three months so stay tuned!

Pisces

Pisces is following his/her star to the finish line. It is time for the creativity in the Pisces to come forth into a reality.  You are not just a ‘dreamer’ you are a manifesting ‘principle’ at this point in time.  You have put many factors in your life ‘on hold’ and now it is time to move forward; this goes for health, emotional welfare, confrontations with partners, etc.  You have the ability now to get specific as to what you need in your life to make you successful in any endeavor so get started and the way will be cleared by you and for you the middle of April onward.  Your partner is confused by you and has not treated you well, but now there is no question as to who you are and what you want so makes sure your partner understands this well and does not leave you out of any equation that involves the partnership.  You probably need to handle some health issues you have put on ‘hold’ and those things need to be addressed in the next couple of months…..it is difficult to diagnose symptoms of a Pisces so it always best to get several professional opinions as to which course to take.  Be very cautious with alcohol or any drugs in the next few months as well or all of the good things you do will be sabotaged by your efforts if you become a ‘user’.  Your family needs you to be clear and exact about decisions involving their futures as well, so don’t cop out and act as if the decision making processes don’t include you. They do and you know that!  You can set your boundaries straight and be for ‘yourself’ and for ‘others’ as long as you understand the difference.  If you are considering a separation or divorce at this juncture of your life, please hold off until you are sure all bases have been covered, counseling, spiritual help, communication and intimate issues.  You have isolated yourself from some of the more meaningful things happening around you and it will take some time for you to see things as they ‘really are’ rather than how you ‘want them to be’.  Take care to see you have creative and solitary time to yourself each day as that will be necessary to manifest your dreams and creativity into realities!

This is not an easy subject to embrace and as we move forward into this complicated framing and reframing of sexuality and spirituality, we must open our minds and hearts in a way that centers around our own safe exploration into self/Self.  Learning to hold the tension of opposites within our own psyches is a huge learning curve.  Most often we decide that we cannot do this any longer, hold the yin/yang in our own system, but must have another become part of the outer marriage rather than first having a balance of yin/yang within, finding our own coniunctio, often called the mysterium coniunctio by those with an alchemical mind, via Carl Jung’s works. It is the inner marriage, the inner completion of the male/female, the Sol/Luna (Sun/Moon) within that creates the dynamic of completion in this life, correlating exactly with the creative spiritual experience, in as much as one completes this process. The alchemists describe this coniunctio, the inner marriage in the following passage (excerpted from Jung’s analysis):

“Luna and Sol often appear as White Queen and Red King (note these colors’ corresponding stages of transmutation; the symbol of this relationship is a rose). This relates to their symbolism as the anima, the female principle within a male personality, and the animus, the male principle within a female personality, respectively. (Jung called this aspect a “medium between the ego and the unconscious). This is reminiscent of Rubedo, in which Luna becomes a man, whereas Sol becomes a woman. According to Jung, both aspects are crucial to their corresponding Self, and their realization is achieved through relationships with people of the opposite sex. The alchemical concepts of Sol and Luna seem to be the unconscious projections of the animus and the anima.”

All of this may be a bit heavy to bite off of, but the dynamics in our psyches are ever present even if we don’t fully understand them.  We get our anima (infused into the male) from the feminine and our animus (infused into the female)  from the masculine and those inner images stay with us a lifetime, forming a very integral part of our persona and how we view relationships, especially intimate relationships.  Intimacy can include sexual expression, but not necessarily….still being part of our sexuality.  In-to-me-see!  So who in your life or better yet, your existence as a ‘soul’ have you downloaded into your psyche representing these images of anima or animus?  These aspects definitely color your relationships and your expression within those relationships. We have inner images that literally determine our relationships and those inner images are derived from past soul experiences, and mostly in this lifetime by those who role modeled the opposite sex.  The same images are present no matter what our sexual preferences are.

Our expression of ‘love’ inclusive of our sexual spiritual connection is one that infuses creation and creativity into the ‘one’ holding that love; Teilhard De Chardin put it succinctly in this piece of prose:

“The day will  come when, after harnessing the winds,

The tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God

The energies of love.  And on that day, for the second time

In the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

Can we find a place inside of us that bursts with creativity, with the need to express oneself wholly, fully and without compromise? Will we allow love to flow freely between ourselves and others and learn how to function in our sexual bodies, fully understanding the opposing forces that live within us and have been represented in our outer relationships?  Our creative ‘fires’ are caught up in all of this and in order to spring forward with purpose and passion, one must find the flames that burn within and are able to be ignited by our own doing.

We have been watching the compromising that comes along with free expression of love and sexuality in the polyamorus version of ‘Big Love’, a take off on the polygamous communities of the FLDS, Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Why has this received so much national attention, when we know that there are multiple affairs, bigamy in nature, and rampant polyamory going on in our society, but kept under wraps.  How about looking at the polyamory that is in fantasy if not in reality, in each and every one of us, either through some repressed guilty expression or full out expression as in this HBO presentation or by those of the multiple Pagan communities?  What if our nature is polyamorous as represented in mythology, in the Bible, and in a multitude of other literature, not to mention other cultures? We, indeed, have choices to create a monogamous life style or one which includes our polyamorous nature.  Have we lost you here?  Hopefully you will see how this works through our society and into the morality issues that surround us in our everyday life. We may experience all of these things that are mentioned, but keep most of it to our own private thoughts, or go to the movies and live it out in the fantasy world represented by the film industries.  Sometimes we have difficulty seeing the difference between the real and the other dimensions that represent us.  Is there a difference?

We are looking for love, acceptance, excitement, passion, pleasure and free expression in our sexual/spiritual experience or we shut down completely.  It is a choice, to be complete or incomplete and some of us have made that choice willingly and happily.  This treatise is to explore the needs of those of us who are still looking for an ecstatic connection to our passion for life, love and the pursuit of happiness.  So let’s keep our judgments aside and move toward understanding the roots of our being, the multi-dimensionality in which we all exist.  Are we living in those dimensions as eternal souls or do we just have this one life, this one existence to prove ourselves?  We must learn to see ourselves in other parallel worlds, in other dimensions of time and space, to encounter that purpose that we all hold inside, to become spiritual beings inhabiting the body, mind and soul of ‘the now’.

Androgyny, as we apply this term here,  is a true integration of our femininity/masculinity and is not concerned as to role playing within relationships so please understand that if one is still hung up on who, what and why about their sexual nature, that is okay, but not the focus here.   To get to a level of transformation and transcendence, one must come to terms with one’s own feminine/masculine body within.

Professor Sandra Bems’ work on androgyny preceded the current widespread use of the term as a gender identity, and uses the term more in terms of character traits than core gender identity. She considers an androgynous balance of traits to be desirable, stating that those who are able to draw on both traditionally masculine and feminine emotions and behaviors are best able to cope with life’s challenges in a well-rounded way.

From Wikipedia in regards to human sexuality:

“Human sexuality is not simply imposed by instinct or stereotypical conducts, as it happens in animals, but it is influenced both by superior mental activity and by social, cultural, educational and normative characteristics of those places where the subjects grow up and their personality develops. Consequently, the analysis of sexual sphere must be based on the convergence of several lines of development such as affectivity, emotions and relations”.

And now as we have some background of where we might go with this information, let’s give ourselves permission to really go into depth into our own sexual nature and clear out the cob webs shall we? Cob webs meaning: value judgments blocked sexual energies, past psychological factors, relationship baggage.  We aren’t going there, and maybe you can understand that we need to transform that energy privately and thoroughly on our own time.  We all have problems, blocks, negatives, so how about coming out of that space and seeing our future and multidimensional selves as pure sexual beings in a continuous movement toward becoming ONE with self/Self and others, helping to heal the planet and others around us in a way that is lasting and transformative.

We have been discussing the energetic of 2012 and how the planet is speeding up its own energies aligning itself with the galaxies and we are focusing on how this is affecting us as our lives seem to be folding in on themselves.  Our dreams are becoming more intensive, our interactions with others are intensified and it seem we are all being bombarded from the personal to the political arena…it is all part of the soup we are in, as Carl Jung use to say. We in the psychological field are definitely skewed in our frame of reference as we see person after person struggle in this area, not to mention those peers of ours in the healing professions try to gain balance and not get tipped over in this topsy-turvy world.

There is a general mandate out in the cosmos to take care of our own bodies, minds and spirits as we move toward our transcendent lives on this planet which is also making its transitions; global warming, planetary changes, zero-point realities, a la Gregg Braden and even more so a global economy that is moving the USA away from isolationism and empiricism at the same time.

Full Moon in Virgo occurs on March 8^th giving us a surge of Virgo type situations due to the fact that Mars is also retrograde in Virgo, so there may be some intense emotional experiences that most Virgo/Pisces axis might feel.  It would be a good time to rest, read a good book, and settle your mind with more meditation and less white noise.  Full Moons are meant to finish existing projects, close on deals that have been recently made and let go of situations that have not served you well.   The New Moon in Aries on the 22^nd of March will bring about some major changes in the Aries/Libra axis due to the conjunction of Uranus which is also in the early degrees of Aries.  Changes that you might not have counted on and are being forced to make room for are occurring in rapid succession, so find a discipline which will calm you during these processes.

Neptune’s entrance into Pisces the end of February has given a surge of creativity and exaggerated dream life to all of us, including an imagination gone ‘wild’.  Neptune is a lovely planet of wisdom, creativity, imagination and illusion.  The down side of this is possibly around health issues that might call for several expert opinions before trying to be exact as to the manifestation of any one disorder.  Be wary of worrying unnecessarily about your health, for both Virgo and Pisces as this will only add stress to what can be a beautiful transit of Neptune.  Try to find a getaway, a natural diet and a way of showing your creativity to the world.

Mars remains retrograde in Virgo until the 15^th of April and is causing stress in the inner worlds of those who have planets in Virgo in their charts.  Handling the energy of Mars retrograde can seem like a long tortuous ride on a roller coaster emotionally, however you will learn a lot by paying attention to the twists and turns along the way.  All is valuable in the field of learning.  I am sure for some this is not such great news, however we have to find something positive don’t we?  Virgos and Pisces are reacting strongly to this retrograde, so do something that sets your mind at rest, even if temporary, like the movies, theater, books….any dramas that can be observed rather than ‘lived’.

Mercury goes retrograde in Aries (conjunct Uranus) March 12^th through April 3^rd and will have all of us saying things we don’t mean and being quite impulsive about it all, but as usual, it only lasts for several weeks and then, things will be back to some normality.  This is an interesting retrograde while we are doing our income taxes so you might want to do this earlier or later but definitely before the 15^th of April.  There will be a few snafus along the way for sure.

Saturn remains retrograde with its last visit to Libra through March and April.   So those born in the middle of October to about the 21^st will be feeling the ending of this cycle strongly.  Have you learned your lessons yet?  Are disciplines in place?  How are you handling your dietary needs which are affecting your health?  Aries has watched their partnerships falter with this, but the good news is that new commitments and positive lessons have been learned.

Stay tuned for next month where we will have a detailed April, May and June forecast.  Always remember that even if you are another sign, you have other planets in these signs I have mentioned so to some degree more or less, they apply to ‘you’.   Have a great Spring Break!

Letters and Numbers

Pay attention to any letters or numbers that are included in a dream, even if you are telling the dream and use numbers in your retelling.

Place and Time of dream are crucial and very important to document each time.

The present mood before you had the dream, anything of greater importance that happened the day before or is of great concern to you.

Animals

To see animals in your dream represent your own physical characteristic, primitive desires, and sexual nature, depending on the qualities of the particular animal. Animals symbolize the untamed and uncivilized aspects of yourself. Thus, to dream that you are fighting with an animal signifies a hidden part of yourself that you are trying to reject and push back into your subconscious. Refer to the specific animal in your dream.

To dream that animals can talk represent superior knowledge. Its message is often some form of wisdom. Alternatively, a talking animal denotes your potential to be all that you can be.

To dream that you are saving the life of an animal suggests that you are successfully acknowledging certain emotions and characteristics represented by the animal. The dream may also stem from feelings of inadequacy or being overwhelmed. If you are setting an animal free, then it indicates an expression and release of your own primal desires.

To see lab animals in your dream suggest that an aspect of yourself is being repressed. You feel that you are not able to fully express your desires and emotions. Alternatively, it suggests that you need to experiment with your fears, choices, and beliefs. Try not to limit yourself.

Birth

To dream of giving birth or see someone else giving birth suggests that you are giving birth to a new idea or project. It also represents a new attitude, fresh beginnings or a major event. Alternatively, the dream may be calling attention to your inner child and the potential for you to grow. A more direct interpretation of this dream may represent your desires/ anxieties of giving birth or the anticipation for such an event to occur.

To dream that you are giving birth to a non-human creature signifies your overwhelming (and unfounded) fear in the health of your baby. You are overly concerned that your baby may have birth defects. This type of dream is common in expectant mothers in their second trimester. If you are not expecting, then it refers to your fear in the outcome of some decision or project. You are trying to overcome difficulties in your life and achieve inner development.

In particular, if you dream that you are giving birth to a monster, then it implies that your inner creative energy has yet to blossom and grow into expression. You may have some hesitation in releasing this “monster” for fear that others will judge you or that they will not accept your ideals.

To dream that the mother dies during birth represents transformation. The dream represents the ending of one thing (death) and the new beginning of another thing (birth). You may be making life changes or getting rid of your old habits and ways.

Building

To see a building in your dream represents the self and the body. How high you are in the building indicates a rising level of understanding, awareness or success. If you are in the lower levels of the building, then it refers to more primal attitudes and/or sexuality.

To see a building in ruins or damaged indicates that your approach toward a situation or relationship is all wrong. You need to change. Your own self-image may have suffered and taken some blow.

To dream that a building collapses indicates that you are losing sight of your ambitions and goals. Your pursuit for material gains is failing.

To dream that you or someone fall off a building suggests that you are descending into the realm of unconscious. You are learning about and acknowledging aspects of your unconscious. Alternatively, it symbolizes your fear of not being able to complete or succeeding in a task.

To dream that you are scaling or climbing a building indicates that you are getting carried away by your ambitions.

Death

To dream about the death of a loved one suggests that you are lacking a certain aspect or quality that the loved one embodies. Ask yourself what makes this person special or what you like about them. It is that very quality that you are lacking in your own relationship or circumstances. Alternatively, the dream indicates that whatever that person represents has no part in your own life anymore. In particular, to dream about the death of your parents indicates that you are undergoing a significant change in your waking life. Your relationship with your parents has evolved into a new realm.

To dream that you are faking your own death suggests that you are looking for a new start. You need some change in your life.

To dream that you die in your dream symbolizes inner changes, transformation, self-discovery and positive development that is happening within you or your life. You are undergoing a transitional phase and are becoming more enlightened or spiritual. Although such a dream may bring about feelings of fear and anxiety, it is no cause for alarm as it is often considered a positive symbol. Dreams of experiencing your own death usually means that big changes are ahead for you. You are moving on to new beginnings and leaving the past behind. These changes does not necessarily imply a negative turn of events. Metaphorically, dying can be seen as an end or a termination to your old ways and habits. So, dying does not always mean a physical death, but an ending of something.

On a negative note, to dream that you die may represent involvement in deeply painful relationships or unhealthy, destructive behaviors. You may feeling depressed or feel strangled by a situation or person in your waking life. Perhaps your mind is preoccupied with someone who is terminally ill or dying. Alternatively, you may be trying to get out of some obligation, responsibility or other situation. You are desperately trying to escape from the demands of your daily life.

To see someone dying in your dream signifies that your feelings for that person are dead or that a significant change/loss is occurring in your relationship with that person. Alternatively, you may want to repress that aspect of yourself that is represented by the dying person.

Home

Represents your psyche (includes ego, unconscious, complexes) at whenever the time frame is on the home. That is why time on each dream and characters at the time’ are so important)

To see your home in your dream signifies security, basic needs, and values. You may be feeling at “home” or settled at your new job or environment. Alternatively, the dream represents your basic needs and priorities.

In particular, to see your childhood home, your hometown, or a home that you previously lived in, indicates your own desires for building a family and your family ideologies. It also reflects aspects of yourself that were prominent or developed during the time you lived in that home. You may experience some unfinished feelings that are being triggered by some waking situation. Alternatively, the dream may represent your outdated thinking.

To dream that you cannot find your way home indicates that you have lost faith and belief in yourself. It may also signify a major transition in your life.

Storm

To see a storm in your dream signifies some overwhelming struggle, shock, loss or catastrophe in your waking life. The storm also represents unexpressed fears or emotions, such as anger, rage, turmoil, etc. On a more positive note, the storm symbolizes your rising spirituality. It may signal rapid changes ahead for you.

To dream that you take cover in a storm foretells that whatever disturbance or problems is occurring in your life will quickly blow over. Consider also the phrase “weather the storm”, which refers to your ability and strength to withstand whatever comes.

Water

(Notice the color, clarity of the water, the calmness or storminess of the water and what characters, if any, are associated with it)

To see water in your dream symbolizes your unconscious and your emotional state of mind. Water is the living essence of the psyche and the flow of life energy. It is also symbolic of spirituality, knowledge, healing and refreshment. To dream that water is boiling suggests that you are expressing some emotional turmoil. Feelings from your unconscious are surfacing and ready to be acknowledged. You need to let out some steam.

To see calm, clear water in your dream means that you are in tune with your spirituality. It denotes serenity, peace of mind, and rejuvenation.

To see muddy or dirty water in your dream indicates that you are wallowing in your negative emotions. You may need to take some time to cleanse your mind and find internal peace. Alternatively, the dream suggests that your thinking/judgment is unclear and clouded. If you are immersed in muddy water, then it indicates that you are in over your head in a situation and are overwhelmed by your emotions.

To dream that water is rising up in your house suggests that you are becoming overwhelmed by your emotions.

To hear running water in your dream denotes meditation and reflection. You are reflecting on your thoughts and emotions.

To dream that you are walking on water indicates that you have total control over your emotions. It also suggests that you need to “stay on top” of your emotions and not let them explode out of hand. Alternatively, the dream is symbolic of faith in yourself.

“We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow. And if such a person wants to be cured it is necessary to find a way in which his conscious personality and his shadow can live together.” Carl Jung: CW:11, p. 12

The old beliefs, the old lies, the old rigidity reeks havoc on our bodies. By taking inventory on these bodily manifestations, we might be able to build a new and more open body for our soul’s infusion into self. We come to this planet through an intense energy of light vibration and as we incarnate and get closer to the earth, the magnetic field gets dense; the thought forms manifest. Lo and behold! we land on this earth in physical form, taking on, within our bodies all the beliefs and grounded interactions that are on this planet; all the paradigms, the belief systems, the families, the personalities, the governmental and cultural structures, the place which houses our bodies…we take all of it into our body ..and then we begin processing this persona in this life. Our body holds all of what we are and what we are to become, and reveals itself by our own relationship to it. This body awareness is essential in understanding the nature of things we need to change as we enter the Gateways of 2012.

We are always in a state of learning, feeling, sensing, intuiting, that which our body is telling us. What is your body telling you? In our work with others, therapeutically, we develop dialogues within the body, which, eventually will be exemplified on this site, but until then, let’s look at the psychological processes by which we learn more about our shadows as they are reflected in our bodies, the buried periphery in our personal unconscious.

We are going to go over some general meanings regarding body armor and body shadow energy. The SHADOW is that part of you which is reflected in your relationships, projections, high energy involvements, and seems to always slip past your energy boundaries into your body when not processed. The body creates the actual MIRROR of your body as a temple of worship so that you have to pay attention and maintain some vigilant disciplines about the care and nurturing of your own body. After we go through these general meanings of character armor, much of which we learned through the study of Wilhelm Reich, Fritz Perls, and Alexander Lowen, but mostly just through my psychic intuition, and a alchemical approach to all of the leading psychologies, we will see how relevant this is to the changes that need to be made at a personal and highly intimate level. We manifest in our bodies the following symptoms so that we can learn how to deal with this dense planet and get past the process in order to become more aware and conscious, as well as ‘response able’ to our authenticity.

The head is the part of us that is caught up in logos, thinking, intellect, analyzing and many of us operate totally from our heads trying to make sense of all that comes to us and from us. Even as I am writing this, my head is using up all its oxygenation and I am not focusing on breathing into my head to prevent headaches…too much energy focused in one area for any length of time, will create stagnation in that area, due to no oxygen. Headaches and more head injuries create a need to get out of our minds and into our bodies..

The speech mechanisms in the throat and all around the chest area can create such blocks as laryngitis, polyps, our children who have speech defects because we have not learned to communicate our truths. Yes, even our children manifest our ‘denial of body’. Sometimes the lessons have to be given with a 2 X 4 over the head in the form of our progeny.

Our hearts get blocked, big time, due to our inability to love self, others, without limitation, judgment, and willingness to receive love and nurturance. Many people think that it is a matter of action of loving. I see it as a shutting down to receiving love unconditionally. Our inability to receive touch, care, love….all of this shuts the heart down to a screeching halt. This is reflected in pains on the left side of the body as well as the lack of circulation and mobility at that level.

Our stomachs are loaded with the unexpressed anger; the abandonment of the mother or the unavailability of the mother/nurturance. There is lactose intolerance, because we were fed with attachment and with the toxicity of the mother’s attachment or abandoning, both creating the same polarity. The over mothering is just as abandoning of the child as the mother who leaves her child on the doorstep of the ‘other’.

Our pelvises and sexual chakras are the seat of kundalini, and shock us into action through frustration, through charisma, through magnetic chemistry between us and others. The planet is going through major shifts of sexual energy and how we use it. This energy is pristine and we put thoughts/feelings/emotional dramas on this energy so that we can source our more intense selves. We refuse to own our male/female in an authentic manner. We don’t want to look in the face of our husbands, wives, and lovers, and say… He/She is ME ..we are  having a sexual relationship with ourselves,  so we manifest all kinds of problems in our genitalia.

We have mentioned a few of the areas that hold our shadows, parts of self that we project on others ‘to hold’ until such time as we can hold the energy as self, consciously and fully, becoming healthy physically so that we can live longer more fulfilled lives.

Becoming fully conscious of our shadows requires other disciplines that are necessary so that we don’t bury ourselves in our own conscious self. Jung once warned:

 “If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against. He lives in the “House of the Gathering.” Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.” Carl Jung, CW11: p. 140.

• the effect the cosmology has on our own personal psycho-physiological body
• the brain shifts that are occurring due to the electromagnetic energies
• the ongoing evolvement of our planet as it pertains to our souls
• the things we can do to remember who we are and what our soul purpose is meant to be.
• healing techniques that might be available to us in addition to those of the medical model.

The announcement of a program called Gateways to 2012 was announced by both Daniel Jacobs and myself which began in 2010 and ran for a year on Blog Talk Radio. Here is the announcement and purpose: “We are beginning a Blog Talk radio show which will be entitled Gateways to 2012 which will answer some of the more specific questions people have in this regard so be sure and keep up and tune in.  Our first trial run will be at 2:00 PM CST, this Sunday, March 1^st.  I will be hosting this program and will have some very supportive and talented guests on this subject matter.  I will speak to the astrological configurations only in reference and will continue to be on Scott Cluthe’s blog radio show, Positively-Incorrect in order to answer questions of those interested in their personal astrological configurations.  So with that out of the way, we will continue to the discussion of Gateways to 2012. 

The brief explanation of the Mayan prediction as to the sun aligning with the galaxy on December 21, 2012 and how that pertains to us and our own physicality would be the following example. Our personal sun, the sign under which we were born will be aligning with our totality as ONE, we will be reuniting with all that is, and start recognizing our soul as part of all incarnations of beings.  We have memories of who we really are and what we have evolved into over many thousands of years, our soul.  Now our soul will remember and reconnect to ‘all that we have ever been or will ever be’.  This will demand of us a sense of timelessness, a meditative state of mind which takes us out of the sequential time and into a world where time does not exist but becomes all one, living in parallel universes, so to speak in parallel galaxies.  I am sure you have all been having dreams where the dreams all seem real and in a very specific way, our dreams are our living out life in these parallel universes, so they are real speaking at a quantum level.

The dream state must come from the side of our brains that have no-time relationship, for most of us it is the right side of the brain.  We realize when we awaken that we are trying to make sense, time-honored sense of our dreams in a logical sequential understanding, all of which is in the left brain. Actually our brains are being infused and are undergoing synapses at a rapid rate which is causing the brain to shift and recalibrate to the more current conditions of this speeded up time. Our dreams are so very important at this time and keeping up with the symbolic metaphors and orientation of the dreams is equally important.  Our dreams can remember who we are and what we are about at this time and we can come to some understanding of our purpose and other lives that play an important part of our ‘becoming our soul’.

So as we are coming to alignment of the soul to our own personal galaxy of beings, we can reconnect and transform ourselves with an understanding that our ego self is only a persona for the current lifetime. The electromagnetic currents in our earth in space have been changing and are reducing, but more importantly, it is helping recalibrate the brain and our connection to this brain.  The right brain in most of us (right handed types) controls our senses, sight, smell, taste, feel/touch, and the left side of our brain controls our time sense, logic, sequencing of our linear selves.  When the brain is re-infusing and recalibrating due to the energies received 24/7, it is shifting and we are sometimes met with physical symptoms of imbalance, such as headaches, vertigo, stroke-like symptoms, etc.  We see more and more of it around us which is demanding that we rest more, take better care of our diets and our sense of boundaries with others.

Stresses in our day and time are caused mostly by the confusion at a mass level in the areas of purpose, intent, how to deal with change, loss of jobs, destruction of relationship and relatedness to others.  All of these factors leave the ‘persona’ reeling, however the ‘soul’ knows what It must do to reconnect to the higher Self, as opposed to giving over to the little (s)elf. It calls on us to remember who we are, to imagine what, as children, we could dream of one day being…..it is a reconnection to a depth within us that we seldom look at, but long for just the same.  We often fulfill this calling by getting involved in a relationship with an intimate other and then give all our longings and Be-longings to the ONE.  We miss the boat when we do that because we no longer search for the meaning within ourselves. This is not to say that one should not be in a primary relationship, however why give the response ability to the ‘one’ rather than to self/Self.  We literally distract ourselves and fragment ourselves when we do this and no longer can remember nor reconnect to who we are as our soul aligns with its true and ancient Self.

We elected a president of the United States who repeatedly calls for change and as we listen to what that really means, it means no more ‘hiding’, ‘secrets’, ‘conspiracies’, ‘unwarranted trust in government’ and all things that would bring the distractions from world peace and prosperity in from hiding.  We, in our own ‘beingness’ are part of that change and what Barack Obama is asking for from collaboration and working with the public from his governmental peers is to pay attention to honesty, integrity and the people to whom this government serves.  If we pay attention to ourselves and quit expecting someone else to open the gates of realization for us and with us, then we can get started on the road to reconnection and transformation, individual awareness of Soul and Purpose.  What is driving us, who is taking care of us, who will be with us at the end of this road, this lifetime?  It is a heavy responsibility to get in touch with our own purpose, just like what we are demanding of our President’s promise for change.  Who really needs to change here?

Time is running out and isn’t it a coincidence that we probably will not find the answer our present woes until the year 2012?  Are you a part of the solution, or are you part of the problem.  We can no longer live in separation from our world and refuse to own some responsibility for the state of our affairs. We are all one body in many ways and we will know that when one day, we view the parallel worlds beyond this one.